Saving a HASH to Redis on a rails app

Question

Im just starting off with Redis with Rails so this maybe a dumb question.

I am trying to save a hash to redis server but when I retrieve it its just a string IE.

hash = {"field" => "value", "field2" => "value2"} $redis.set('data', hash)  #So collecting the data @data = $redis.get('data') 

This is obviously wrong as its returning as a string.

I have also tried looping some results and using the hset ie.

@data.each do |d|   $redis.hset('data', d.field, d.value) end  # errror # ERR Operation against a key holding the wrong kind of value 

Not sure where to go. I have deleted the key $redis.del('data') to make sure that was not the issue.

Hope you can advise, Lee

Answer 1

I should have read the redis docs more thorough.

Answer:

IN $redis.set 'data', hash.to_json  OUT data = JSON.parse($redis.get("data"))